»the cinema is immortalized in a volume of photographs by christof leistl. he succeeded in lightning up the low dive-like, self-made and at the same time the dreamy and hybrid character of the werkstattkino and its midnight community.« (miriam niroumand, taz)

»since the x-screen book which today already fetches enormous collector’s sums, there has never been a more beautiful book about the blackest depths of the german world of cinema … (filmwärts)

published 1993